* 1850 – Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher ( d. 1935 )

* Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ), novelist

Honoré de Balzac ( ; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 ) was a French novelist and playwright.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy ( 1855 – 1931 ), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy ( 1850 – 1898 ).

** Pierre Loti, French novelist & travel writer ( born 1850 )

* July 6-Guy de Maupassant, novelist and short story writer ( born 1850 )

* May 20-Honoré de Balzac, French novelist ( died 1850 )

Pierre Loti ( pseudonym of Julien Viaud ; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923 ) was a French novelist and naval officer.

* Mary Letitia Martin ( 1815 – 1850 ), heiress, novelist

Le Père Goriot (, Old Goriot or Father Goriot ) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ), included in the Scènes de la vie Parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

Jane Porter ( 17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850 ) was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.

Baroness Jemima von Tautphoeus ( née Montgomery ) ( October 23, 1807 – November 12, 1893 ) was an English novelist who wrote several stories dealing with Bavarian life, manners and history of which the first, The Initials ( 1850 ), is perhaps the best.

La Peau de Chagrin (, The Magic Skin or The Wild Ass's Skin ) is an 1831 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850 ).

* William Hamilton Maxwell ( 1792 – 1850 ), Scots-Irish novelist

* 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor ( b. 1783 )

" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.

But the 1848 revolution turned out to be unsuccessful: King Frederick William IV of Prussia refused the imperial crown, the Frankfurt parliament was dissolved, the ruling princes repressed the risings by military force, and the German Confederation was re-established by 1850.

William Batchelder Greene ( 1819 – 1878 ) is best known for the works Mutual Banking ( 1850 ), which proposed an interest-free banking system, and Transcendentalism, a critique of the New England philosophical school.

* 1850 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( b. 1759 )

Parliament appointed a committee, led by William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10, 000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries.

* 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.

* William Morris Davis ( 1850 – 1934 ), father of American geography, founder of Geomorphology and developer of the geographical cycle theory.

* Langer, William L. " American Foods and Europe's Population Growth 1750 – 1850 ", Journal of Social History, Vol.

* 1759 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( d. 1850 )

Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.

On July 17, 1850, Vega became the first star ( other than the Sun ) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory, also with a daguerreotype.

William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

William Wordsworth died by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St. Oswald's church in Grasmere.

** William Wallace " Willie " Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln ( b. 1850 )

* April 7 – William Wordsworth, English poet ( d. 1850 )

* September 19 – William Kirby, English entomologist ( d. 1850 )

In 1850, Lord Kelvin, then known as William Thomson, distinguished between two magnetic fields now denoted and.

Peckforton Castle was built between 1844 and 1850 for John Tollemache, the largest landowner in Cheshire at the time, who was described by William Ewart Gladstone as " the greatest estate manager of his day ".

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

It was here that, in October 1850, the local physician William Penny Brookes had founded the Wenlock Olympian Games, a festival of sports and recreations that included athletics and team sports, such as cricket, football and quoits.

It is uncertain who chose the name " Salem " for the new town, but it is believed to be one of two people: trustee David Leslie from Salem, Massachusetts, or William H. Willson who in 1850 – 1851 filed the plats for the main part of the city.

Pendennis ( 1848 – 1850 ) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray.

Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical article of Poe called " Memoir of the Author ", which he included in an 1850 volume of the collected works.

In 1850 he married an American college teacher, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, who later wrote introductory books about natural history and, after his death, a lengthy biography of her husband.

In 1850, in the preface to his Kashubian-Russian dictionary, Florian Ceynowa wrote about the language of Baltic Slavic peoples:

Humboldt was a philosopher and wrote On the Limits of State Action in 1791-2 ( though it was not published until 1850, after Humboldt's death ), one of the boldest defences of the liberties of the Enlightenment.

Bruckner also wrote Lancer-Quadrille ( c. 1850 ) and a few other small works for piano, as well as a few organ works.

* At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611 ; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian ' father of modern drama ' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.

Engels also wrote some important newspaper articles such as " The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution " which he finished in February 1850, and " On the Slogan of the Abolition of the State and the German ' Friends of Anarchy '" written in October 1850.

For example, his father wrote a textbook on the German language for children aged 9 – 13, entitled Hülfsbuch zum Unterrichte in der deutschen Sprache für Kinder von 9 bis 13 Jahren ( 2nd ed., Wismar, 1850 ; 3rd ed., Wismar and Ludwigslust: Hinstorff, 1862 ), the first section of which dealt with the structure and logic of language.

Between the years 1839 and 1850, Gautier wrote all or part of nine different plays:

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act.

* John Watson, who wrote under the pen name / pseudonym Ian Maclaren ( 1850 – 1907 ), Scottish reverend / minister, theologian and author

Sailing up the Nile as far as Abu Simbel in January 1850, she wrote " I don't think I ever saw anything which affected me much more than this.

* Ellen Douglas Birdseye Wheaton ( 1816 – 1858 ) wrote a notable diary from 1850 to 1858 ; it described her life as a married woman and activist.

In April 1850, Stone wrote to women in Ohio who were planning a Woman's Rights Convention in Salem, asking them to put pressure on the Ohio legislature to write a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.

On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly antislavery journal National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: " I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak ...

* Albert Lortzing wrote in 1850 the libretto for a comic opera in three acts, Cagliostro, but did not compose any music for it.

He opposed the appointment of the University Commission ( 1850 ), and wrote two pamphlets ( Remarks ) against the reform of the university ( 1855 ).

The poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who was born in Massachusetts in 1807, wrote " The Pumpkin " ( 1850 ):

To a friend in 1850 he wrote,

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

In 1833 he wrote the text of Henry Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments of the Middle Ages ; and in 1850 edited the English translation of Joseph Balthazar Silvestre's Paléographie universelle.

He wrote two books of poetry: England's Trust and Other Poems, published in 1841, and English Ballads and Other Poems, published in 1850.

In 1850 he wrote The Pillars of Hercules, a book about his travels in 1848 through Spain and Morocco.